Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
How did Government enforce its authority during civil war - Coggle Diagram
How did Government enforce its authority during civil war
Role of Cheka
Was established as a secret police body in December 1917
Launched the red Terror
Aimed at political enemies
rounded up remaining Sr's, Mensheviks, anarchists and any other threat and they shot them
executed roughly half a million people between 1918 and 1920
Carried out class warfare where it it was an excuse given to bourgeoise where they were accused of plotting counter revolutions and were imprisoned and executed. Although class warfare was an issue for all classes and they even executed children
Set up concentration and labour camps although they weren't as orderly as those when Stalin was in power
Influence of Trotsky
was a skilful organiser and properganderist.
Moulded the red army which was over 3 million men
directed the war from a train which covered 65,000 miles during the war
travelled with his own elite force and visited various fronts and meeting commanders and there troops
ensured the army was fed and well armed
Trotsky could inspire and helped boost morale
recruited 50,000 former tsarist army officers for there experience in training new recruits
appointed political commissars to army units
brought back the death penalty to those who deserted the army
Actions of the red army
indulged in brutal atrocities
commanded the hub of communications, the armaments factories and densely populated regions of central Russia
United in there aims to survive, were ideologically committed
became a well disciplined under Trotsky's leadership